provide to the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies accurate information about their whereabouts [under penalty of a fine up to 5,000 rubles] and proceed to the transfer of affairs and to the posting of announcements, under penalty of punishments indicated in § [1].

[In those places where separate Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies exist, these soviets agree among themselves on the establishment of a single Soviet organ for announcements.]

Corrections were made by Lenin to the text written by A. V. Lunacharsky, to whom Lenin, after his address of November 17 (4) before the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, entrusted the writing of this decree. Having reviewed the decree and made corrections in the direction of strengthening repressive measures, Lenin signed the decree. The decree was published in the "Gazette of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government," No. 6 of November 21 (8) (see "Collected Decrees and Dispositions," No. 2, December 17 (4), 1917). Later, in 1921, Lenin referred to this decree in his address to the Moscow Provincial Party Conference (see Works, vol. XXVII, pp. 62–63).

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ADDITIONS TO THE DECREE ON THE REQUISITION OF WARM ITEMS FOR SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT

[Before November 21 (8), 1917]

**Title:** Add:

"... and on the requisition of apartments of the wealthy for the alleviation of the needs of the poor..."

**§ 1.** ... plus one of the warm items in addition to a blanket (overcoat, fur coat, jacket, felt boots, etc.).

**§ 2.** ... A wealthy apartment is also considered any apartment in which the number of rooms equals or exceeds the number of souls permanently living in that apartment.

Owners of wealthy apartments are obliged immediately, under threat of confiscation of all property, to present in 2 copies a declaration concerning the warm items they have and those coming from them for the benefit of the Front, one copy to the House Committee, the other copy to the district Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

Owners of wealthy apartments, under the same threat, are obliged immediately to present to the same institutions and likewise in 2 copies a project for the settlement of two... a declaration concerning the liberation of one...